Music in Turkey is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical ...

• Foreword
• Preface
• CD Track List
• Chapter 1: Anatolian Rural Musics and Instruments
• 1.1: Rural song forms: türkü and uzun hava
• 1.2: Asik poetry and poets
• 1.3: Alevi sacred/secular music
• 1.4: Saz-family instruments
• 1.5: Saz making
• 1.6: Kemençe and Karadeniz folk song
• 1.7: Dance music and drumming: Oyun havasi and the aski-davul
• 1.8: Conclusion: rural music in urban Turkey
• Chapter 2: Urban Musics and Instruments
• 2.1: History of urban art music until 1950
• 2....